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by spathi_fwiffo 332 days ago
Or do something to make it so that payment processors must process payments for anything legal, without any say in the matter.

Probably get sued up to the Supreme Court like pharmacists that don't want to accept birth control prescriptions. Which may not work out that great with how much the current court hates freedom.

but, really, if the product or service is legal, payment processors should have to accept the payment. Same for all the other categories of product they are blocking with similar methodos.
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bluGill 332 days ago
What if it is unclear. I cannot tell 100% if a girl between 12 and 32 is over 18. maybe I can be right 75% of the time but I can think of two girls at the extreems that I was way off (that is a girl I guessed was 12 turned out to be 27 and a different girl I guessed at 32 won an under 16 race). Fake ids are all over (because 18-20 year olds want to drink at college).

ontil we legally give payment processors a pass for enabling money for crime they will be very careful about grey areas.

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Eavolution 332 days ago
Why would it be on the payment processor at all to determine if something is legal or not? I think that is a massive issue on it's own as I don't want Visa/MC deciding whether they think what I'm doing with my money is legal, that's for a legal system to do, not a private company.
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AlienRobot 332 days ago
The worst thing about this situation is that it's legitimizing cryptocurrencies.

So many gamers are going to get scammed in the next months... all because a payment processor couldn't just do its job.

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